John Scott Award

In retrospect, it seems probable that the medical profession gained far more from Link s successes as an agricultural chemist than it could have from his practice of medicine. The discovery of Dicumarol and its adoption as an important clinical anticoagulant, and the synthesis of Warfarin and its development as a widely used rodenticide—these accomplishments, which will not be described in this article, alone were more than sufficient to make Karl Link an important name in science. For his work on Dicumarol, Link received the Cameron Award from the University of Edinburgh in 1952, the Lasker Award in 1955 and 1960, the John Scott Award in 1959, and the Kovalenko Medal of the National Academy of Sciences in 1967. He was a Harvey Lecturer... 

He was given many awards and honors including Nichols Medal (1915 and 1920) Hughes Medal (1918) Rumford Medal (1921) Cannizzaro Prize (1925) Perkin Medal (1928) School of Mines Medal (Columbia University, 1929) Chardler Medal (1929) Willard Gibbs Medal (1930) Popular Science Monthly Award (1932) Franklin Medal and Holly Medal (1934) John Scott Award (1937) Modern Pioneer of Industry (1940) Faraday Medal (1944) and Mascart Medal (1950). He was a foreign member of the Royal Society of London, a fellow of the American Physical Society, and an honorary member of the British Institute of Metals and the Chemical Society (London). He served as president of the American Chemical Society and as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received over a dozen honorary degrees. 

The technique was invented by Grant Henry Lathe and Colin R Ruthven, working at Queen Charlotte s Hospital, London. They later received the John Scott Award for this invention. While Lathe and Ruthven used starch gels as the matrix, Jerker Porath and Per Flodin later introduced dextran gels other gels with size fractionation properties include agarose and polyacrylamide. A short review of these developments has appeared. 

Roy is a member of the American Chemical Society, tile American Institute of Chemists, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Sigmi Xi and has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Ohio State University, Washington College and Memchester College. He is the recipient of the John Scott Medal (1951), the National Association of Manufacturers Modern Pioneer Medal (1965), and the Chemist Pioneer award of the American Institute of Chemists (1964). He was inducted into the Plastics Hall of Fame (1973), named a Pioneer in Polymer Science in Polymer News (1985) and inducted into the Inventors Hall of Fame (1986). 

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